Miami Dolphins agree to trade WR Jakeem Grant to the Chicago Bears for ’23 pick, source says

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  • Marcel Louis-JacquesESPN

MIAMI — The Dolphins have traded huge receiver Jakeem Grant to the Chicago Bears, the group declared Tuesday.

The Dolphins will get a 2023 sixth-spherical pick, the NFL Network to start with reported and a supply verified to ESPN.

Grant, the Dolphins’ major returner due to the fact they drafted him in the sixth spherical in 2016, is a person of the NFL’s best distinctive teams players with five return touchdowns in his vocation he ranks 11th amid energetic players in non-offensive touchdowns. He was voted a second-team All-Professional last year, a person 12 months just after signing a four-calendar year, $19.7 million extension in 2019.

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For his occupation, Grant has 978 punt return yards and 2,206 kick return yards.

He has had a slow start to the season, nevertheless, muffing a punt through Miami’s reduction to the Colts in Week 4 and fumbling deep in the purple zone in the team’s reduction to the Expenditures in Week 2.

Filling in for Grant as the Dolphins’ major returner will presumably be rookie Jaylen Waddle, who handled punt return responsibilities when Grant was hurt in 7 days 2.